Phaedrus Quotes

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.

Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes
Should triumph o’er my dying woes:
But, scorn of nature, forced to lie
And take thy taunts, is twice to die.

That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.

Fortes indigne tuli
Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus,
Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori.

Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.

"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.

Translation: Things are not always what they seem.

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"

Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.

Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.